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Kwaidan. (film) Kwaidan ( Japanese: 怪談, Hepburn: Kaidan, lit. 'Ghost Stories') is a 1964 Japanese anthology horror film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. It is based on stories from Lafcadio Hearn 's collections of Japanese folk tales, mainly Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), for which it is named.
Kwaidan: Directed by Masaki Kobayashi. With Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Rentarô Mikuni, Kenjirô Ishiyama. A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.
25 Feb 2020 · Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, Kwaidan features four nightmarish tales adapted from Lafcadio Hearn’s classic Japanese ghost stories about mortals caught up in forces beyond their...
Kwaidan. After more than a decade of sober political dramas and socially minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories.
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning “ghost story,” this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost.
Four folk tales: a samurai marries for money with tragic results; a man stranded in a blizzard is rescued at a cost; blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts; an author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior’s reflection in his teacup.
Kwaidan is a horror anthology with narrative design that seems to have been composed straight from the pen of Edgar Allan Poe - less superficially gruesome, more eerie and unsettling.
Overview. Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost.
Horror. After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized...
Kwaidan. Directed by Masaki Kobayashi • 1965 • Japan. Starring Rentaro Mikuni, Keiko Kishi, Katsuo Nakamura. After more than a decade of sober political dramas and socially minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories.
